New US sanctions target illicit financial network aiding Iran, military | Business and Economy News

New US sanctions target illicit financial network aiding Iran, military | Business and Economy News

US Treasury Department says Iran relies on brokers, front companies to finance proxies across region, including Hamas. The United States Department of the Treasury has announced new sanctions targeting 21 Iranians, foreign nationals, and firms accused of involvement in an illicit financial network for the benefit of the Iranian military….

COP28 president denies UAE using UN climate talks to seek oil deals | Climate News

COP28 president denies UAE using UN climate talks to seek oil deals | Climate News

An investigation finds the Emirati president of the talks, who is also an oil executive, is using his role to push fossil fuel deals. The Emirati president of the United Nations climate conference in Dubai has denied reports that he has used his role at the negotiations to pursue fossil…

Freed Israeli hostages tell families of ordeal in Gaza captivity | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Freed Israeli hostages tell families of ordeal in Gaza captivity | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli women and children on their return from captivity in Gaza have spoken of being beaten and threatened, moved from place to place and forced to whisper during weeks spent with little to do, their families say. Most captives released during a six-day-old truce have been rushed to hospitals in…

Israeli forces kill two Palestinian children in occupied West Bank raid | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli forces kill two Palestinian children in occupied West Bank raid | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Residents of Jenin camp, which has seen nightly raids since October 7, say they were ‘shocked’ at scale of attack. Two Palestinian boys were shot and killed by Israeli forces in Jenin, in the north of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Ministry of Health has said. As talks to…

US says climate change threatens wolverines with extinction | Wildlife News

US says climate change threatens wolverines with extinction | Wildlife News

The North American wolverine will receive long-delayed federal protections under a Biden administration proposal released on Wednesday in response to scientists warning that climate change will likely melt away the rare species’ snowy mountain refuges. Across most of the United States, wolverines were wiped out by the early 1900s from…

‘Save what remains of Gaza’, hospital director says, amid bombing | Israel-Palestine conflict News

‘Save what remains of Gaza’, hospital director says, amid bombing | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – Ahmed Isleem wishes he were dead. The 35-year-old’s wife and daughter were killed along with 10 other family members and neighbours in an Israeli attack on their home. He lies on a bed in the European Gaza Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis,…

Is Biden’s two-state plan for Israel and Palestine a fantasy? | Israel-Palestine conflict

Is Biden’s two-state plan for Israel and Palestine a fantasy? | Israel-Palestine conflict

The US was happy to neglect the Palestinian issue for years. Why is it talking of a ‘reinvigorated’ peace process now? After the war on Gaza, US President Joe Biden says he wants to “reinvigorate” the attempts to create a Palestinian state alongside Israel. But the devil is in the…

How Parthenon sculptures sparked a diplomatic row between Greece and UK | News

How Parthenon sculptures sparked a diplomatic row between Greece and UK | News

The UK prime minister cancelled a scheduled meeting with his Greek counterpart after Athens demanded permanent return of ancient sculptures. Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has cancelled a planned meeting with his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis, sparking a diplomatic row over the status of the 2,500-year-old Parthenon sculptures housed in…